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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Death/thrash metal band from Utrera, Spain, formed in 2024. Their punishing crossover of death and thrash metal brings fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Baltimore's Hatebeak hold a singular place in underground metal history: their vocalist is a Congo African grey parrot named Waldo, whose screeching squawks front a grinding death metal assault. Since reforming their activity around 2019, they remain one of extreme metal's most genuinely surreal propositions.
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Death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2014. Their releases including Forty Thousand Generations of Liars deliver punishing death metal from the Bulgarian capital's thriving extreme music scene.
Hatebound is a black/death/groove metal band from Yaroslavl, Russia, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
HateCrime is a black/death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2014. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, active since 2014. Their punishing crossover of death and thrash metal emerges from the working-class heartland of the Ruhr industrial basin.
Death/thrash metal band from Sinzig, Germany, active since 2010. Their relentless aggression channels the full fury of extreme metal from the banks of the Rhine.
Hateera is a thrash/heavy metal (early); thrash/death metal (later) band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2010. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
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